The Voice of the Violin by Andrea Camilleri

Author:Andrea Camilleri
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Andrea Camilleri
Publisher: Viking Press
Published: 2004-08-10T03:00:00+00:00

TEN

The next morning, at headquarters, the staff was almost at full strength: Augello, Fazio, Germana, Gallo, Galluzzo, Giallombardo, Tortorella and Grasso. The only one missing was Catarella, who had a legitimate excuse for his absence, attending the first class in his computer training course. Everyone was wearing a long face fit for the Day of the Dead, avoiding Montalbano as if he were contagious, not looking him in the eye. They'd been doubly offended: first by the commissioner, who'd taken the investigation away from their chief just to spite him, and, second, by their chief himself, who had reacted meanly to their letter of protest to the commissioner. Not only had he not thanked them -- what can you do, the inspector was just that way -- but he had called them a bunch of fucking idiots, and Fazio had told them this.

All present, therefore, but all bored to death, because, except for the Licalzi homicide, it had been two months since anything substantial had happened. For example, the Cuffaro and Sinagra families, two criminal gangs perpetually engaged in a turf war who were in the custom of leaving behind, with near-perfect regularity, one corpse per month (one month a Cuffaro, the next month a Sinagra), seemed to have lost their enthusiasm a while back. Such indeed had been the case ever since Giosue Cuffaro, after being arrested and having suddenly repented of his crimes, had helped lock up Peppuccio Sinagra, who, after being arrested and having suddenly repented of his crimes, had helped put away Antonio Smecca, a cousin of the Cuffaros, who, after suddenly repenting of his crimes, had pulled the plug on Cicco Lo Carmine, of the Sinagra gang, who.

The only noise to be heard in Vigata had been made the previous month, at the San Gerlando festival, by the firework display.

'The number-one bosses are all in jaili' Commissioner Bonetri-Alderighi had triumphantly exclaimed at a jam-packed press conference.

And the five star bosses are still in place, the inspector had thought.

That morning Grasso, who had taken Catarella's place at the switchboard, was doing crossword puzzles, Gallo and Galluzzo were testing each other's mettle at the card game of scopa, Giallombardo and Tortorella were engrossed in a game of draughts, and the others were either reading or contemplating the wall. The place, in short, was buzzing with activity.

On his desk Montalbano found a mountain of papers to be signed and various other matters to be dealt with. Subde revenge on the part of his men?

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